[…] Let’s talk about the influences that shaped “Star Wars” for a moment—everyone name checks Joseph Campbell‘s “The Heroes With A Thousand Faces,” Akira Kurosawa‘s “The Hidden Forteress” and countless “Flash Gordon” serials. Those are certainly among the key touchstones that George Lucas re-imagined into the most influential franchise in movie history, but there are countless other points of reference that shaped the fertile mind of a young auteur. Are they worth cataloging and then editing into an annotated cut of “Star Wars” in an attempt to illuminate Lucas’ creative process and the material he had access to and …read more […]